Abraham Mok
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Abraham Mok (15 May 1888 – 29 February 1944) was a Dutch gymnast who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics. He is remembered as one of four members of that squad murdered during the Holocaust of the 1940s.[1][2]
Biography
Athletic career
Mok was part of the Dutch gymnastics team, which finished seventh in the team event at the 1908 Summer Olympics, held in London.[3]
In the individual all-around competition Mok finished 78th.[3]
Death and legacy
Mok, who had ethnic Jewish parents, was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp located in Oświęcim, Małopolskie, Poland, and murdered there on February 29, 1944.[4] Mok was one of four members of the 1908 Dutch gymnastics team murdered in the Holocaust, sharing his fate with teammates Isidore Goudeket, Abraham de Oliviera, and Jonas Slier.[4]
Footnotes
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- 1888 births
- 1944 deaths
- Dutch male artistic gymnasts
- Gymnasts at the 1908 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gymnasts for the Netherlands
- Gymnasts from Amsterdam
- Dutch civilians killed in World War II
- Dutch people who died in Auschwitz concentration camp
- Jewish Dutch sportspeople
- Dutch Jews who died in the Holocaust
- 20th-century Dutch sportsmen